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Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbæna.

The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

A distorted image.

The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.

Opposition to government in general. [R.]

One who opposes all government. [R.]

Opposed to all human government. [R.]

The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

An enemy to monarchial government.

One who has an antipathy. [R.] "Antipathist of light." Coleridge.

Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. -- n.

One who is destitute of feeling.

Apathetic; une motional. [R.]

A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.